סְנַפִּיר
fin
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H5579 appears in the Book of Deuteronomy — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Deuteronomy
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
סנפיר — transliterated çᵉnappîyr — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “fin.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 5 verses. More than half of its appearances fall in Leviticus. Debuting at Leviticus 11:9, it then recurs through the corpus. See the sense tree, 5-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5579 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 3 verses 60%
- Deuteronomy 2 verses 40%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 5 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: All that have fins 1×, All that have not fins 1×, Whatsoever hath fins 1×
- American Standard Version: Whatsoever hath fins 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Fins 3×, Have fins 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fins 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5579 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5579 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5579 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5579 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- fin
Word origin
n.[m.] fin (NH id.; quadrilit. according to Sta§ 243; Fl LevyNHWB iii. 725 a cp. Aramaic סִמְפּוֹרִין points, nails, and der. this from סַמֵּר vb. nail, with infixed פ (LevyChWBii. 570 b));—Lv 11:9, 10, 12 = Dt 14:9, 10.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of uncertain derivation
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
סְנַפִּיר
- (b. h.; = סַנְפִּיר; ספר with anorganic נ; cmp. סִמְפּוֹרִין, fins. Ḥull. III, 7. Nidd. VI, 9 כל … יש לו ס׳ every fish that has scales has also fins; ויש שיש לו ס׳ וכ׳ but some have fins but no scales. Sifra Sh’mini, ch. IV, Par. 3 אפי׳ אין לו אלא ס׳ אחת even if it has only one set of fins; a. e.—Pl. סְנַפִּירִים, סְנַפִּירִין, סְנַפִּרִ׳. Ib. המרבה … ובס׳ one that has more than one coat of scales and one set of fins. Ib. (ref. to Job XLI, 22) ḥaddudé ḥares אלו ס׳ שלו refers to its (the Leviathan’s) fins. Ḥull. l. c. וס׳ הפורח בהן by s’nappirin is meant that organ with which it speeds its movements.—[Yalk. Lev. 645 סנפירים, v. סַלְפִּינְגָּס.] e.g. Job 41:22
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H5579 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| סְנַפִּ֥יר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 14:9 | 3 |
| סְנַפִּ֣יר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 11:10 | 1 |
| סְנַפִּ֨יר | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 11:9 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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